Take away my reproach which I have feared; for Your judgments are good.

And [so] I shall render an answer to them that reproach me; for I have trusted in Your words.

Deliver me from all my transgressions; You have made me a reproach to the foolish.

While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?

O God, You will grant to Your inheritance a gracious rain; for it was weary, but You have refreshed it.

The Lord God will give a word to them that preach [it] in a great company.

Have pity upon us, O Lord, have pity upon us; for we are exceedingly filled with contempt.

[Yea], our soul has been exceedingly filled [with it]: [let] the reproach [be] to them that are at ease, and contempt to the proud.

And Nabal sprang up, and answered the servants of David, and said, Who is David? And who is the son of Jesse? Nowadays there are an abundance of servants who depart, everyone from his master.

And David heard it and said, Blessed be the Lord, who has judged the cause of my reproach at the hand of Nabal, and has delivered his servant from the power of evil; and the Lord has returned the mischief of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and spoke concerning Abigail, to take her to himself for a wife.

And thus Shimei said when he cursed him, Go out, go out, you bloody man, and man of sin.

The Lord has returned upon you all the blood of the house of Saul, because you have reigned in his place; and the Lord has given the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son: and behold, you [are taken] in your mischief, because you [are] a bloody man.

[ 16:21] Let my supplication come to the Lord, and let my eye weep before Him.

How long will you torment my soul, and destroy me with words? Only know that the Lord has dealt with me thus.

You speak against me; you do not feel for me, but bear hard upon me.

Therefore let us go out to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

Hope in the Lord, and do good; and dwell on the land, and you shall be fed with the wealth of it.

And He shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noonday.

For what glory [is it], if when you sin and are beaten, you endure? But if when you do good and suffer [for it], you endure, this is admirable before God.

having a good conscience, so that in what they speak against you as evildoers, those reviling your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame.

For it is better to suffer for doing good, if it is the will of God, than [for] doing evil.

If you are reviled in the name of Christ, blessed are you, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you. On the one hand He is blasphemed, but on the other He is glorified.

but if anyone [suffers] as a Christian, let him not be put to shame, but let him glorify God in this matter.